Sports

A Friday, December 7 event will see the Waukon High School gymnasium dedicated in honor and in the name of a man who likely spent more time and touched more lives in that same gym and during his coaching and teaching career than anyone else. During that Friday, December 7 home game series against Oelwein, a ceremony will be held between the junior varsity and varsity contests to unveil what will be the newly dedicated Dave Schoeberlein Gymnasium at Waukon High School.

Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank in Waukon recently presented a check in the amount of $1,140.00 to the Allamakee Athletic Booster Club from proceeds the bank received through its Homecoming tailgate party held Friday, October 5 at Waukon High School. Serving hamburgers and hot dogs grilled by the Allamakee County Cattlemen, the bank accepted free will donations with all proceeds being donated to the Allamakee Athletic Booster Club. Pictured above at the check presentation to the Allamakee Athletic Booster Club are, left to right, Patricia Kammeyer, Mary Jo Goodman and Peggy Berns of Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank, Danette and Dwight Jones of the Allamakee Athletic Booster Club, and Teresa Sommer of Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank. Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank has donated $11,763.08 to the Allamakee Athletic Booster Club in the nine years this event has been held.

The Waukon girls basketball team will be hosting a scrimmage series Monday, November 12, playing three levels of games against Sumner-Fredericksburg at the Waukon High School gym. The event will begin at 5 p.m. with a freshman contest, with the junior varsity game to be played at 6:15 p.m. and the varsity contest wrapping up the event at 7:30 p.m.

Admission to the event will be one canned food item per person. Those food items will then be distributed to the Allamakee County Food Shelf. The event is scheduled to be a competition against Sumner-Fredericksburg and is slated to be held again next season at Sumner-Fredericksburg to support that community’s local food shelf.
 

The Waukon football team won a defensive battle in the second half of its Friday, November 2 home game in the Class 2A State Play-Off quarterfinal round, scoring the only touchdown of the game's second half to overcome a 21-18 halftime deficit and win a 24-21 thriller over Algona. With its 24-21 triumph, the football Indians have earned their way to the Class 2A State Play-Off semifinal round for the second consecutive season and for the third time in the last six seasons. The grid Tribe’s continued play-off success has earned the Indians a repeat match-up with Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley this Saturday, November 10 at 4 p.m., the first of two Class 2A State Play-Off semifinal games to be played that evening in the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls. For full coverage of the football Tribe's quarterfinals victory over Algona, as well as information on the Indians' Class 2A semifinals rematch with Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley, pick up a copy of the November 7 Standard newspaper.

The Waukon Wellness Center will be holding its Fifth Annual “Turkey Trot” 5K Run/Walk Thanksgiving Day, November 22 at 8:30 a.m., beginning and ending at the Waukon Wellness Center. The Center is located directly across from Waukon High School at 1220 Third Avenue NW in Waukon.

All runners and walkers are welcome to join in this traditional pre-feast workout. The event is being held in part this year to help fund the new community tennis court project planned for location diagonally across the street from the Wellness Center near the new concession stand.

On a night where only light rain fell throughout most of the game, it was the Waukon football team that provided the thunder and lightning in storming to a 40-11 wash-out of Union of La Porte City Friday, October 26 in the opening round of the Class 2A State Play-Offs. Having lit up the scoreboard near the 40-point range or above in its previous seven games of an eight-game win streak heading into the play-offs, the grid Tribe wasn’t quite sure what to expect in facing a Union team with which it has a lot of recent football history but which has ridden a bit of a roller coaster to a 6-3 regular season but an 11th consecutive State Play-Off appearance as well.

The improvement the Waukon volleyball team has made late in this season has continued to show itself in the net Tribe’s start to postseason tournament play. Although still showing obvious improvement traveling down that postseason road, that road and any chance to show further improvement this season came to a close in the Indians’ second-round Class 3A Region 8 match-up Tuesday, October 23 at 13th-rated New Hampton.

Brennan and Meyer run to All-State finishes among Class 1A’s top-15 elite

The Kee girls cross country team returned to the scene of its greatest accomplishment from last season, looking to make another mark among the Class 1A elite at this season’s Iowa High School State Cross Country Meet held at Lakeside Municipal Golf Course near Fort Dodge Saturday, October 27. Returning with four of their top five scored runners from last season’s third-place team finish, the Lady Hawks were poised to do just that and ended up just shy of equaling last season’s accomplishment, finishing fourth in this season’s field of Class 1A’s 15 best teams by a mere three points behind last season’s Class 1A champion, Hudson.

For the second consecutive season, the Waukon girls cross country team wrapped up its season where all high school cross country teams would love to be, the Iowa High School State Cross Country Meet held at Lakeside Municipal Golf Course near Fort Dodge Saturday, October 27. Competing for the second consecutive season and just the second time at the season grand finale since Iowa high school girls switched to the 5K cross country distance, the Indians had the ironic experience of scoring fewer team points at this season’s State Meet but ultimately finishing two spots further back in the final team standings, the distance Tribe ultimately placing 11th in the 15-team Class 2A field after scoring 238 team points, four fewer than last season’s total of 242 points that placed the Lady Indians ninth overall.

The Waukon football team will begin defense of its first-ever football State Championship this Friday, October 26 by opening the Class 2A State Play-Offs with a home game against Union of La Porte City in a game beginning at 7 p.m. The Knights hold a 6-3 record and come out of a three-way tie in Class 2A District 7 after having their own undefeated district season denied by a 26-16 loss to West Marshall this past Friday. The Knights, West Marshall and Benton each ended up with a single district loss, with Benton having defeated West Marshall and Union having defeated Benton earlier in the season. That first-round match-up is part of Class 2A’s Bracket C in this season’s new initial four-bracket play-off system in each class.